London’s BEST new Balkans band, Raka, announced their arrival with a bang on THIS A World In London! Click:https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-5th-april-2017/ Raka was assembled by Ben Pitt less than a year ago, inspired by fellow band member Josh Middleton, of Don Kipper fame. Josh’s skilful and melodic accordion repertoire launched Ben on a journey of musical discovery from Bulgaria to Bosnia, taking his viola for a soaking in gypsy classics by legends like Ivo Papasov and Esma Redzepova. Raka’s sterling line-up of London musos includes ubiquitous multi-linguistic Slovak vocalist Lori Secanska, Namlo’s Gizem Altinordu on darbuka. percussionist Tim Karp, Lucy Tasker on clarinet, Oysland’s John Macnaughton on sax, violinist Matt Holborn, and Chris Traps on tuba. Together they’re the most thrilling, foot-stomping collective to emerge from our capital and you can see Raka on May 5th at Jamboree!